Race Evaluation
USMA West Point A-Meet 2010: Blue Long Distance
iansmith
| 1. | Around to the right of the building; clean. Spent a bit of time getting into the map. | ||||||
| 2. | North to the trail, the around on the road/trail far right of the line. I attacked from the reentrant NE of 3. Not as good a route choice as through the parking lot. | ||||||
| 3. | Straight, slow moving up the hill. | ||||||
| 4. | +01:30 | North, through the mountain laurel to the trail. I missed the gate opening left by about 100 meters. | |||||
| 5. | +00:15 | Clipped top of the pipe, and saw the big cliffs to my right into the control. Small hesitation. | |||||
| 6. | +01:30 | I left the trail too early to head for the ski slope. Slow going uphill. | |||||
| 7. | Approximately straight, down the spur and right of the swamp. | ||||||
| 8. | +02:00 | Poor route choice - I went north to the fence and followed it to the first NW corner. I then struck out on a straight line through 11 to 8. Better would have been to go down through the parking lot and attack from the lot south of 11. | |||||
| 9. | Straight and clean, but slow. | ||||||
| 10. | Right of both marshes, used the cliffs above ten as reference. Clean, but slow. | ||||||
| 11. | Straight down the hill, clean. | ||||||
| 12. | +03:00 | Another major error; I ran past the big cliff face south of 8, then failed to turn far enough south. I passed over the small saddle between 12 and 8 and kept going west. | |||||
| 13. | +01:00 | Slow coming out of 12, also had some difficulty interpreting the cliffs at 13. I was a bit high. | |||||
| 14. | I stopped to take a GU at 13, then went straight to 14. | ||||||
| 15. | A good route choice; I went north to the fence, then up the reentrant NE of 3 to the trail. I followed the trail around to the building W of 15 and attacked from there. Clean, but slow. | ||||||
| 16. | Down left of the hill into the reentrant between the little hill and the big cliff SW of 16. Clean and rocky. | ||||||
| 17. | I twisted my left ankle leaving 16 and hobbled over to 17, leading a group of 3 or 4 older people. | ||||||
| 18. | East to the trail, then around. Still recovering from the ankle impact. | ||||||
| 19. | +01:00 | I went far to the right because I thought the wall was uncrossable. Clean from the road into the flag. | |||||
| 20. | Straight. For some reason, I couldn't stop sneezing on this leg - perhaps I'm allergic to some vegetation in this part of the map. | ||||||
| 21. | Flying down the spur. | ||||||
| 22. | Straight, clean. | ||||||
| F. | Fast. |
Total Time Lost - 00:10:15